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Nice to see this happen. It's really tiring to go into an OT and have to endlessly scroll past copy 'n pasted full fucking Wikis and half of the entire high-res media kit posted in the first page. Why include so much superfluous shit that is already available elsewhere? Just link it instead.

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I'm a bad person, so I want the SUBSCRIPTIONS link down with the GAMING, OFFTOPIC and COMMUNITY links, and displayed like the three previous subforums instead of this tiny little thing in my user panel.

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Would it be possible to add an OT preset to posting a new thread with necessary information that has to be in the OT? Could some of GAF's finest coders make this happen? Or would it be too much of a hassle?

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Would it be possible to add an OT preset to posting a new thread with necessary information that has to be in the OT? Could some of GAF's finest coders make this happen? Or would it be too much of a hassle?

That's not that hard to make yourself, really. And an OT can still be a bit of a personal work. I start by making a notepad document and writing down what I need in what order I need it. As I complete more and more I update it with texts and BBCode.

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As for the MGS4 OT, it's kinda fitting that the thing was a behemoth. As much as I hate the game, to GAF in general it's a beacon of why we all play games and come here to discuss the industry. Hell it won GOTY on two separate occasions.

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Thanks for a nice and effectively put update, Tyler. I appreciate your decision to move 'outmoded' official threads of games to the Community Forum. This makes it a bit easier for those who mainly discuss news (like myself) to navigate the site.

I've played over 500 hours of DMC2 and consider the game good.

Meh, I'm okay with the new OT-changes... I'm just disappointed that we won't be seeing a big, sexy looking Diablo 3 thread because if anything, that game deserves it. Now the OT will probably look like this:

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Hopefully this means people stop using complete images for the entire OT. That way if you try to search for a particular piece of info you can find it quickly, instead of having to read an essay on why said game is the greatest game of all existence.

Not being able to search for image-based text is annoying. My problem with it always was that at work (back when I had a 'work' to go to), the common image sites were all blocked. So a lot of linked images were blocked.
It would suck to go to an |OT| looking for information and all I would see is two or three posts filled with red X's.

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While I have no problem with this rule, I still feel as if MGS4 was one of those rare exceptions where a Mega-OT was probably necessary (especially given how ridiculously convoluted the series is and how there were a significant amount of people starting MGS4 as their first Metal Gear).

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-Avoid letting hype distort your perspective. Don't fellate the game in the thread title or otherwise, doubly so if its marketing budget is reminiscent of Apple's bank statement. It doesn't need it, and you'll come off as a viral.

So you can't make a thread that says " The GAF Game OT of The best game of the year!"

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Why all these rules? I understand not posting a frikkin wall of pictures to stop bandwith stuff but come on.

First no topics about weed, asses etc, and now these damn rules. Too many rules. I will abide, but fuck too many rules man :/. You already have to be careful sometimes what you say around here, now we can't even have some fun in the thread titles? Who wins here? Certainly not the users :/.

I do like the one post OP stuff tho. But still kind of sour on this whole thing.

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I'm okay with this. Honestly, I find it more jarring and confusing when a big game comes out and there's like the OT, the official review OT, the MP/Beta OT, official spoiler OT and sometimes the PC performance/Digital Foundry console comparison OT all on the first two pages. I generally like to stick to the OT until I finish a game and then check out the spoiler OT.

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Used to be just me and a few others who would hate those hideous OTs. I'm glad to see that community sentiment is now changing. Good riddance. You were never welcome in the first place, crappy and bloated OTs.

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Hopefully this means people stop using complete images for the entire OT. That way if you try to search for a particular piece of info you can find it quickly, instead of having to read an essay on why said game is the greatest game of all existence.